The tag 'Hirohito' is associated with 12 posts.

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Recorded June 10, 2007
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MP3: Side 1 | Side 2
Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of for­mer Vat­i­can finan­cial adviser Roberto [...]

FTR #584 Rewriting History

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 4, 2007
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In Mein Kampf (his auto­bi­og­ra­phy and polit­i­cal man­i­festo), Adolph Hitler spoke of the big lie: “Most peo­ple tell lit­tle lies. They would be ashamed to tell big ones. They would never credit oth­ers with such great impu­dence as the com­plete rever­sal of facts. Even expla­na­tions would long leave them in doubt and [...]

FTR #580 “The Jews of Asia” — The Sook Ching Massacres and their Significance for Today

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
In many parts of the mod­ern world, Mus­lims are in con­flict with other reli­gious groups and, in some places, with them­selves. This broad­cast illu­mi­nates a rel­a­tively lit­tle known his­tor­i­cal episode–the Japan­ese per­se­cu­tion and slaugh­ter of [...]

FTR #551 Moonlighting

Recorded May 7, 2006
REALAUDIO
NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 551 and 552 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
For fur­ther back­ground on the “King of Peace” con­tro­versy, see:
King of Peace video, YouTube.com
“Moon Over Wash­ing­ton” by John Goren­field; The Gad­flyer, June 9, 2004

Sup­ple­ment­ing numer­ous pro­grams fea­tur­ing infor­ma­tion about Sun Myung Moon’s Uni­fi­ca­tion Church, [...]

Gold Warriors

America’s Secret Recov­ery of Yamashita’s Gold, by Ster­ling & Peggy Seagrave

The Rape of Nanking

by Iris Chang; In Decem­ber 1937, the Japan­ese army sys­tem­at­i­cally raped, tor­tured, and mur­dered more than 300,000 Chi­nese civilians.

FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Recorded May 1, 2005REALAUDIOIn Novem­ber of 2004, author and inves­ti­ga­tor Iris Chang was found dead of an allegedly self-inflicted gun­shot wound. This pro­gram exam­ines the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death. Ms. Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March—the bru­tal per­se­cu­tion of Amer­i­can POW’s cap­tured in the siege of [...]

FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.

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FTR #446 Funds and Games

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 14, 2004
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MP3 Side 1 | Side 2
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High­light­ing the post­war use of Axis trea­sure recov­ered by the Allies after World War II, this pro­gram talks about these Funds and the Games that were played with (and because of) them. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the post­war use of the mas­sive amount of Japan­ese Trea­sure looted [...]

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